discuss certain work or task assigned by the teacher. It can also be used to increase the students’ skill in translation a text because it gives the students many opportunities to be
active in their learning process and create a good relationship between teacher and students, because the teacher functions as the facilitator and motivator within the teaching- learning
process. Regarding to the previous definition, group work in this research is a unit of students which consist of five up to seven persons who come into contact for a purpose of discussing
such kind of translation text and doing a certain work designed by teacher dealing with the text.
2.8 Teaching Translation in the Classroom
In the process of translation, the translator must not be apart from linguistic theory, because
the analysis and the description of the translation process must be taken into consideration by using the categories set up for the description of language. Furthemore, Newmark 1988:21
states that to start translate is from sentence by sentence and then the first paragraph or chapter to get the feel and the tone of the text, and then you deliberately sit back, review the
position, and read the rest of the source language text. In other words, we should read the whole text two or three times, and find the intention, register, tone, mark the difficult words,
passages. In the process of the research, the students get 3 steps of translation until they got well
translation. In group, the students made the translation based on each word and sentences in order to get a better translation.
Teaching translation, in this context is teaching the students about the aspects of translation problems covering nine aspects namely proper name, reordering, word order, multi meaning
word, familiar word, phrasal verb, complex sentence, terminology, and untranslatable word.
After teaching it was expected that the students committed less errors in the aspects mentioned above.
Teaching translation can also mean decreasing surface strategy taxonomy errors covering omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. It means that after being taught, the
students are able to reduce the surface strategy taxonomy errors.
2.9 Procedure of Teaching Translation through Group Work
In the teaching of English translation through group work, the teacher should be familiar and consider what kind of group is appropriate for the students’ learning activities. According to
Crabble 1982:7 in group work the members remain in the same group for a period of time. For instance, groups of students on English subject in or for one semester. The procedure of
teaching translation through group work: A. Pre Activities
The teacher greets the students.
The teacher checks the student’s attendance list.
Ask the students to sit in circle consisting five until seven students and chose a leader
of the group.
Ask the students to answer some questions related to the topic of the text that will be given to them.
Tell the topic of the text to the students.
B. While Activities
Discuss the problems of translation.
Discuss the errors of surface strategy taxonomy.
The students are asked to read the text individually.
The students are asked to translate the descriptive text and make a list of difficult
words in their groups.
Ask the students to discuss the problems in translation and errors their made in the surface strategy taxonomy.
Each group is asked to present their own text
The group tells the content of the text to the other students.
C. Post Activities
The teacher asks them whether they have some difficulties related to the topic.
The teacher gives a chance for students to answer their friend’s question first and then
help to answer it only if needed.
The teacher asks them’ what they have learnt and asks some students to conclude the
topic.
The teacher ends the class. 2.10 Theoretical Assumption
The researcher assumed that group work can increase the students’ skill in translation since group work as Johnson and Blaker in Gladding 1995:3 state that a group is collection of
two or more individuals, who meet in face to face interaction, interdependently, with awareness that each belongs to the group and for the purpose of achieving mutually agreed-
upon goals. According to Flynn and La Fasso 1974:4 group work is a group of people who recognize
themselves one another and who meet in face to face situation to accomplish some purposes. The members of the group will help each other in order to accomplish in their purposes.
2.11 Hypothesis
